Label for ntfs partition.

[T J Tulley]

During editing /etc/fstab it has become clear that labels are useful, but e2label doesn't work for ntfs partitions.

The man page for fstab refers to xfs_admin as an alternative to e2label; the man page for xfs_admin says that the option -L label sets the filesystem label to label.

Accordingly, after unmounting /dev/sdd1 (which is an ntfs-formatted partition), hoping to apply the label SATABkps, I entered the command, with the response as follows:

theo@TJT4Elyssa4 / $ xfs_admin -L SATABkps /dev/sdd1
xfs_admin: unexpected XFS SB magic number 0xeb5b904e
Floating point exception

I shall be grateful for advice!

[merlwiz79]

Well e2label is for ext file systems and xfs_admin is for xfs file systems.
This link should get you what you want.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RenameUSBDrive#NTFS
which says to you this command

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sudo ntfslabel <device> <label>

Example:

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sudo ntfslabel /media/sdb1 Data